Concept2 Forum

from an October 22nd Mike Caviston post on this Thread:<br /><br />>>><br />" ... I use the same approach for other Level 1 workouts (5 x 750m and the Pyramid). That is, I negative- or even-split each individual piece. I don’t do the Pyramid often enough to have developed what I believe would be an ...

A thank you and three questions. <br /><br />First, the thank you: to Mike for the (continued) time, patience and effort involved in posting his thoughts and responses to questions on the theory, practice and rationale behind training and training plans. I for one have hugely appreciated this over t...

Carla<br />If I were you I would change my ref pace to 1:55 or 1:56. From what you said earlier about 1:57 2k pace and 2:00 30' pace it appears your 2k pace is relatively weak anyway. It doesn't sound like you are getting a great deal of endurance strain/gain from the 1:57 pieces (if you'd kept to p...

experimenting with -ve splits:<br /><br />1. +ve: last 4x1k and 4x2k sessions. Attempted with detailed plan and -ve split targets for each piece and each 1/5th segment within each piece (a la Mike C's recent notes, pretty significant and formal -ve splitting). Great results, psychological breakthrou...

Maybe I'm missing the question but the following works for me .... (aside from looking at the monitor to get overall feel of too high/low SPM) I use the following which means that I take exactly the right number of strokes per 10' / 6':<br /><br />1st stroke of each minute on 00 seconds, then if mon...

Citroen<br />FWIW suspect i missed the smiley, but taking the "what target GP should I plan for" at face value... and without requesting any more info (which wd probably change things a bit) ... and based upon my experiences (...)plus some (much, 2003?) older Wolverine threads then<br /><br />if you...

Many congratulations Afterburner, especially given how early you had to start digging in,<br>Guy_W